A trip to Wales is a just over 3 hours there and 3 hours back; so I thought when
I went to Abergavenny this would be the perfect time to listen to a few albums
and podcasts. I put about my trip on Facebook asking if anybody had albums to
listen to and my friend Penny from drumming said I was more than welcome to
look through her CD collection. So the night before the trip I went round hers
and picked a few CD’s for the road.
And of course I went to my resident music advisor's Jen and
Mark for their album picks as well. I picked quite a few albums from Penny and
got 4 from the Walkers, so to make things even I listened to 3 albums each.
My resident music advisor Jen and I
I started off with Jools Holland; More Friends: Small World
Big Band Volume 2, which I think was perfect road trip music. The album had
lots of variety and different artists collaborating. You could tell that they
all wanted to make great music with each track. My favourite song was Together
We Are Strong by Jools Holland, Sam Moore and Sam Brown.
The second album I listened to was Happy People by Peace and
this was a nice summertime feeling album, it sounded like a cross between the Beach Boys
and Bombay Bicycle Club. Django Django’s self titled album followed and the
album sounded like it should be the soundtrack to a Quentin Tarantino film.
Like so many albums though with the songs all sounding similar, it’s hard to
pick out a favourite song from each.
The last album I listened to in the journey was one of the
most random ones for the album. When I saw it in Penny’s collection, I just had
to pick it up. Penny’s husband had got it as a joke from one of his customers
as apparently one of the group visits his restaurant but they don’t know which
one. The 27th album I listened to for the challenge was the best of
Chas and Dave! And not just any album, a 2 disc set. So while stuck on the M25
on a hot Sunday afternoon with the windows open, other drivers were given the
delights of Chas and Dave. Penny hadn’t listened to it herself and it was still
sealed. The first disc wasn’t as bad as I thought. It was light hearted and the
whole album had a feel of a night at the pub with your friends. I’d only heard
of two of their songs before listening to the album; Rabbit and Snooker Loopy.
My other music advisor Penny and I
The second disc I listened to when I got back and it was
full of medleys which to be honest they could’ve done without. A medley or a
megamix should be 10 minutes max and on the first album they had a few that
were longer and felt like a lifetime. It was too much of a good thing guys!
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